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Raheel Shareef

General
Raheel Sharif
HI (M)
راحیل شریف
Raheel Sharif
Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Military Alliance
Assumed office
6 January 2017
15th Chief of Army Staff
In office
29 November 2013 – 29 November 2016
President Mamnoon Hussain
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
Preceded by Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani
Succeeded by Qamar Javed Bajwa
Inspector General of Training and Evaluation (GHQ, Rawalpindi)
In office
29 November 2013 – 29 November 2016
Commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy
(Kakul, Abbottabad)
Commander XXX Corps
In office
October 2010 – October 2012
Personal details
Born (1956-06-16) 16 June 1956 (age 60)
Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan
Relations Major Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider) (uncle)
Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider) (brother)
Captain Mumtaz Sharif (brother)
Parents (father)
Alma mater Garrison Boys High School
Government College Lahore
Pakistan Military Academy
Bundeswehr University Munich
National Defense University
Canadian Army Command and Staff College
Royal College of Defense Studies
Awards Order of Excellence Nishan-e-Imtiaz.png Nishan-e-Imtiaz
Crescent of Excellence Hilal-e-Imtiaz.png Hilal-i-Imtiaz
Military service
Allegiance  Pakistan
Service/branch  Pakistan Army
Years of service 1976–2016
Rank OF-9 Pakistan Army.svg US-O10 insignia.svg General
Unit 6th FF Regiment
Commands XXX Corps
XI Division
Commandant, Pakistan Military Academy
Brigade Commander of an Infantry Brigade
Commander, 6 Frontier Force Regiment
Commander, 26 Frontier Force Regiment
Brigade Major of an Infantry Brigade
Battles/wars Operation Zarb-e-Azb
War in North-West Pakistan
2014 Kashmir Skirmishes

General Raheel Sharif (Urdu: راحیل شریف; born 16 June 1956), NI(M), HI(M), is a retired four-star rank army general, who served as the 15th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from 29 November 2013 till his retirement on 29 November 2016.

He carried out operations in North Waziristan, namely Operation Zarb-e-Azb which stabilized the North-west of the country. He expanded the role of paramilitaries in Karachi which is widely credited with reducing the level of violence in Pakistan's commercial capital. The Pakistani military under his command has also supported the democratically elected government on the federal level and the Baloch provincial and local government in ending the Balochistan insurgency by pursuing reconcilliation and integration of former militants back into mainstream Pakistani society. General Sharif also developed a new brigade-level military unit to help protect and secure the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which runs through Balochistan province. General Sharif helped to develop Pakistan's indigenous defence industry which resulted in the savings of more than $1.14 billion of Pakistan's forex, over a year and half time period.

General Sharif achieved his objectives by strengthening the role of the military in affairs directly concerning national security and foreign policy, while leaving the civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in control of social and economic policy. General Sharif overruled Nawaz Sharif on any attempted peace overtures with India and protected Pervez Musharraf from prosecution over Nawaz Sharif's ouster in the 1999 Pakistani coup d'etat. General Raheel Sharif reconciled Pakistan with America by striking against militant groups near the Afghan border, the Pakistani military carried out its first joint military exercises with Russia, and Pakistan deepend relations with China, are his signature foreign policy achievements.


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